Hundreds of Indian expatriates based in the UAE have found themselves in mounting financial and legal distress after investing in a major residential township in Bengaluru that remains largely incomplete more than a decade after its launch.

Bengaluru for Justice and Peace (BfJP), a civil society collective, has issued an open letter to Members of Parliament demanding urgent action against several Bengaluru-based companies allegedly supplying critical components to Israeli defence firms. The letter calls for increased corporate accountability and urges lawmakers to support an arms embargo on Israel, citing the country’s alleged war crimes in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories.

In connection with the ongoing investigation into the alleged mass burial of human remains, a team from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) visited the Dharmasthala Village Panchayat office and collected several official records.

Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Wednesday returned to the forest near the Netravati bathing ghat, accompanied by the key complainant in the skeletal remains case.

In a strongly worded editorial published on Wednesday in its mouthpiece Saamana, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) came out in open support of Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, while sharply criticising the Supreme Court for its recent observation questioning Gandhi’s patriotism. The party termed the remarks as "wrong in every manner" and accused the judiciary of overstepping its mandate.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated Kartavya Bhavan, the first of the ten upcoming Common Central Secretariat buildings to house the bureaucracy.

Protesters on Wednesday removed the tarpaulin put up by the municipal corporation to cover the kabutarkhana (pigeon feeding station) at Dadar in Mumbai, after the Bombay High Court ordered closure of such facilities.

Two persons were killed and three injured in a blast in an oxygen cylinder plant in Punjab's Mohali district on Wednesday, officials said.